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Painting of a waterfall with trees and people surrounding it.

Painting of lots of trees in the background. There is a waterfall and several people walking around the area.

Painting of a woman wearing a strapless dress. She is wearing a neckless. There is a flower in her hair. The background sky is very colorful.

Painting with faces. There is a very prominent eye in the bottom half of the painting.

Chicago based Haitian artist Fritz Millivoix uses lush colors to depict Haiti as a fantastic landscape seducing viewers to think of the island as an idyllic, romanticized place. Look at how he presents the women and men: enjoying family life and…

Landscape Scene uses tall trees that frame the corners of the canvas. It draws attention to the Haitian community pictured in the center of the composition. As they line up to visit the local river bank, residents circulate Haiti's fertile…

Painting of people sitting together. One man is playing a drum. There is a woman holding a vessel.

Sitting atop a hill, Henri Christophe commissioned La Citadelle in 1805. The fortress angular shape emphasized here references a ship's prow, symbolizing Haiti's path-breaking course. The line extending from the rider on the footpath to the clouds…

On 14 August 1791, slaves of Saint-Domingue gathered for a vodou ceremony at Bois Caiman. The leader Boukman stands larger than life on the far right and presides over the sacrifice of a black Creole pig to Erzulie Dantor, the mother spirit of…

Toussaint Louverture (May 20, 1743-April 7, 1803) was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. In his hands Louverture holds the constitution he drafted in 1800 that declared de facto autonomy from France and guaranteed an end to slavery. In response,…